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Conference on healthspan offers new opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration
11-16-2007 · EurekAlert!More than 160 participants gathered this week for the fifth annual National Academies Keck Futures Initiative conference. This year's topic, "The Future of the Human Healthspan: Demography, Evolution, Medicine and Bioengineering," drew scientists, engineers and medical researchers to discuss new interdisciplinary approaches in the fields of aging, longevity and healthspan -- the period of a person's life during which they are generally healthy and free from serious or chronic illness.
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